Talk:Rags to riches

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Need more examples of true-life rags-to-riches stories. Quadell 23:49, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This may be so, but do you think Hitler is a good example? As I see it, some basic moral principles are an integral part of a success story of the rags to riches type. Even Scrooge McDuck is probably contentious. |l'KF'l| 21:47, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)

I was grasping when I made this list. Please, feel free to replace Hitler with someone more appropriate. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 00:22, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)

Hitler did make many self-serving claims about his poverty, but in fact he came from a quite prosperous middle-class background (his father was a relatively well-off civil servant). As Robert G.L. Waite's book "The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler" explains, Hitler's income during his "poverty years" in Vienna was comfortably more than the average school teacher or postal official was making. Hitler would be a good example of a false rags-to-riches story. Far from working as a common laborer just to survive, Hitler lived a life of leisure in Vienna. -- Steven. --210.84.14.149 16:35, 8 July 2006 (UTC)